On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:39:18AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Assuming the upstream author has properly licensed upstream's > contributions under the GPL, we can distribute those contributions so > long as we comply with the terms of the GPL. [There is an argument > that the upstream author can't actually distribute upstream's > contributions under the GPL, but I'd suggest that even if this is the > case, if we can comply with the GPL, we should be able to distribute > it ourselves.]
This is very confusing. Can you please distinguish between the two upstream authors in a way other than calling one "upstream" and the other "upstream author"? -- Glenn Maynard